Co-sharers -- Un-registered memorandum of partition - Memorandum of partition was acted upon and pursuant thereto part of suit land was sold by one of co-owner - Plaintiff did not challenge said sale deeds for a period of nearly 20 years and filed civil suit only in 1994 - Since the memorandum of partition was acted upon and remained unassailed for nearly two decades and..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Disputed agricultural land has already been sold out by respondent Nos.4 and 5 to respondent No.8 - Plaintiffs have not shown that they are entitled to any protection u/s 53-A of Transfer of Property Act, as they have not taken possession or performed their part of contract - Plaintiffs have not..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 13, Rule 4 -- De-exhibiting a document - Once a document is exhibited aggrieved party has to file an application seeking de-exhibit of such document - However, instead of doing so plaintiff raised objection with regard to admissibility of document and trial Court considered the same holding that it is inadmissible - Approach of trial Court..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 24 -- Transfer of a case - Petitioner seeking transfer of a case from one Court to other does not have to establish actual bias, what is required is that petitioner seeking transfer must have a reasonable apprehension of bias...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 24 -- Transfer of suit - Merely because one of parties in its pleadings (that too before a Court other than Court where subject suit is pending) alleges that other side deliberately enhanced valuation of suit to ensure that suit comes out of jurisdiction of concerned trial Court, it cannot be overstretched to mean that party making such..........
Muslim Law -- Matruka property - Devolution of property - Property in question is matruka property and so has to be distributed amongst the survivors of deceased - Civil Court clearly fell in error by excluding the property on basis of agreement to sell, as agreement to sell has no value in the eyes of law, all the property that vested in deceased would become matruka..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.528) - Agreement to sell - Enquiry already held by police that no cognizable offence is made out - Another notice issued by police calling upon to join enquiry in another complaint with similar allegations - Dispute purely of civil nature and an enquiry has already been held -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Where several reliefs are sought in suit, if any one of reliefs is within the period of limitation, plaint cannot be rejected as barred by law by taking recourse to O.7.R.11 CPC...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - While considering application for rejection of plaint only averments made in plaint and nothing else is to be considered to find out whether suit is barred by law - At this stage, defence is not to be considered...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - When a suit is instituted for possession, based on title to defeat suit on the ground of adverse possession, burden is on defendant to prove adverse possession for prescriptive period - This, therefore, cannot be an issue on which plaint could be rejected at threshold...........
